A container of unopened soy yogurt that I forgot about in my backpack after getting back from the store for about 3-4 hours. Bear in mind that I live in Barcelona where its pretty hot. Please give me the all clear, I haaaate wasting food, especially being an impoverished student and all :(

i know it's too late for this, but you could definitely eat this. 3-4 hours is nothing for an unopened container. I always bring soygurts places with me for lunch and they are out for at least that long. it's fine.

Flours - probably fine. Smell and/or taste a little to make sure they haven't gone rancid. Other than that, the worst that would happen is that they might get some bugs in them, which you would see. That's unlikely to happen if they're refrigerated, though.

Assuming they are dry (not soaked), keep them. Unless they were at the store for a very long time, they shouldn't go rancid in a month. I keep my raw cashews for way longer than that and I don't even refrigerate them (they do last longer in the fridge though).

Nutritional yeast from the bulk bin thats been sitting in my cupboard since I first got AFR, many, many months ago?

Months? I would think it should be fine. After a year or so I might be concerned, but I wouldn't really expect it to "go bad." It just might absorb moisture or not taste as good.

if it's bad, you most certainly will know. i had a ten pound bag i bought and dawdled in using, and it got moist and moldy- smelled for the world like a big bag of cat-piss-filled-kitty-litter. That was a sad day....

Nutritional yeast from the bulk bin thats been sitting in my cupboard since I first got AFR, many, many months ago?

Well.. I just finished up using a small box of nutritional yeast that I bought in 2008, and it tasted more than fine. It was well sealed in one of those ziploc containers.

(background: It was left in a small box that came with me after a move from Portland, OR in 2008, it got lost in my closet for a few years and then there was a nutritional yeast emergency in my kitchen a month ago..soo it was a chance I took...)

Next time you get more daiya, you should freeze it : )I bought a box once and kept using it until I used everything up to make pizza (about a year or so).

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Tempeh, nowhere near the expiry yet. From Trader Joe's, in that crazy shrink-wrap package that is usually so obnoxiously close to the tempeh that you can barely open it without mangling the tempeh... except this time the package had swelled up and there was a pocket of air around the tempeh! It doesn't SEEM to smell off, but I just went to the gym, so I smell gross, so I don't know if I can even smell anything at the moment.

I think I'm gonna go for it, because the expiry isn't for like another month or two.

If this is a horrible idea, please stop me!

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Tempeh, nowhere near the expiry yet. From Trader Joe's, in that crazy shrink-wrap package that is usually so obnoxiously close to the tempeh that you can barely open it without mangling the tempeh... except this time the package had swelled up and there was a pocket of air around the tempeh! It doesn't SEEM to smell off, but I just went to the gym, so I smell gross, so I don't know if I can even smell anything at the moment.

I think I'm gonna go for it, because the expiry isn't for like another month or two.

If this is a horrible idea, please stop me!

I'd say it's probably ok. Things like that may or may not actually be vacuum packed, so there may have just been a difference in pressure from when it was packaged.

Tempeh, nowhere near the expiry yet. From Trader Joe's, in that crazy shrink-wrap package that is usually so obnoxiously close to the tempeh that you can barely open it without mangling the tempeh... except this time the package had swelled up and there was a pocket of air around the tempeh! It doesn't SEEM to smell off, but I just went to the gym, so I smell gross, so I don't know if I can even smell anything at the moment.

I think I'm gonna go for it, because the expiry isn't for like another month or two.

If this is a horrible idea, please stop me!

I think the obnoxiously close thing is part of the process of making tempeh, but I'd just smell it. I've smelled off tempeh before and it's pretty obvious.

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